On 6/5/14, 6:16 PM, Bert Huijben wrote: > Do we make sure that we only send the password to an exact match of the realm? > Otherwise somebody might be able to theoretically steal passwords by using a > special realm string on a completely different server.
Moving this to private. Trunk has code to protect against that. You wrote it in December: http://svn.apache.org/r1550691 http://svn.apache.org/r1550772 Older versions don't. We should probably fix that given that MD5 collisions are possible to engineer. See: http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/md5collision/ You'd have to convince someone's SVN client to connect to some other server that you controlled, but that's not impossible with some social engineering. I think we should treat the above changes as something that should be backported to 1.7/1.8 as a security fix. Any other opinions?
